flash plugin in 6.0

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote:
> > > > Dev Tugnait wrote:
> > > >  > The port is not broken cvsup your tree
> > > >
> > > > Yes it is.  While some things work, it still does not create the
> > > > proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path
> > > > for it correct in the sample libmap.confs.  Beecher's fix will
> > > > correct.
> > >
> > > The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not
> > > mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your
> > > browser_plugins dir?
> >
> > That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the
> > first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does
> > break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from.
> > Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong
> > place. That's the job of the port.
>
> You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some
> of us read their mails ;-)
> Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is "broken"
> You have too much to manually correct.
> At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time
> finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal.

Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've 
tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to 
get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since 
the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find 
all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue). 
If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do it 
automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going to 
be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that 
causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to 
micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because there 
isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that span 
many months.

If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at:

http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt

Just my .02

Beech




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